This was the song that made me stop using Autotune. In some ways it actually works quite well, I do remember trying to redo it without pitch correction back in the day, but finding that the weird robotic texture to the vocals actually worked quite well.
So, rather than redo the song from scratch, or break the limit of 2 tracks per album, I decided to go with it a bonus track, and remix it with no further changes.
lyrics
ZooCity
(Original mix appears on 'The Mythical Creatures Exhibition', 2007)
Centuries of radiation and war
Can turn a man into an animal
Every city has its own history
The future's known, the past is a mystery
We are the ones (Your future self)
We are the ones (Our living hell)
We are the only city in the world – Zoo City
Evil mutant, in our main power plant
Just your bad luck, to press the self-destruct
Here the mob come, pick yourself up and RUN!
We are the ones (Your future self)
We are the ones (Our living hell)
We are the only city in the world – Zoo City
Five year exile, you can rest for a while
Sort out your life, you can't escape from strife
The whole world to roam, but there's no place like home.
We are the ones (Your future self)
We are the ones (Our living hell)
We are the only city in the world – Zoo City
After centuries of radioactive pollution and nuclear wars
Only one city in the whole world still resists the attacks
of mutants and alien invasions. Welcome.. to ZooCity!
We are the ones (Your future self)
We are the ones (Our living hell)
We are the only city in the world – Zoo City
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"There is lambswool under my naked feet..." - those words always come to my mind while listening to the first bars of "Wide Of The Mark". There's undoubtedly quite some "Genesis" heritage to be found in the music on this album. However, the band that is most closely related to "The ID" is certainly "IQ", which is among the favorite bands and artists named by both Peter Albrektsen (gtr, kbd) and Tim Pepper (v, kbd). So the similarity of the names "ID" vs. "IQ" is obviously not purely coincidental. Being a long-time admirer of the creative output of "IQ", this album inevitably reaches my heart. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
The hard-hitting, genre-agnostic songs on the latest from Dan Webb were inspired by conversations he had with a wide range of musicians. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 18, 2023
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With its debut album, this young band from Vienna follows the footsteps of honorable Austrian prog masters like "Matter Of Taste". The music on this concept album is not of the kind I'd call particularly innovative - it travels pretty much on well known roads paved by many others long ago. However, these youngsters do it in a highly pleasant way, skillfully avoiding the pitfalls of pseudo-progressive phrase rehashing most of the time - certainly more successfully so than several of their experienced grand paragons of prog. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)